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bironi
06-04-2006, 11:42 PM
An old friend used an old slang term from my youth. A good laugh was had by all. No one had heard this word used for many years. I tried to find some reference via Google, but to no avail, so I am calling on some of the older crowd to date themselves.

What does the term "rink" mean to you? I am 54 years old, and the term was common when I was in grade school and junior high.

I know this is a rather stupid fishing expedition, but stupid things still matter to me.

Thanks much,
Byron
Birddog
06-04-2006, 11:52 PM
Rink, That's where you went to skate, either roller or ice.

Birddog
bironi
06-04-2006, 11:57 PM
Birddog,

Looking for another meaning.

Thanks
Russell
06-05-2006, 07:33 AM
rinky-dink meant something cheaply made or not well done. not sure if that is what you were asking about.
Bill Bove
06-05-2006, 07:48 AM
rinky-dink meant something cheaply made or not well done. not sure if that is what you were asking about.
That's the only context I've heard it used in, but I'm only 48. 48 :eek:
Bruce K
06-05-2006, 08:10 AM
Yeah Bill, you are a young whipper-snapper, aren't you? :rolleyes:

BK
Ozz
06-05-2006, 08:31 AM
...What does the term "rink" mean to you? I am 54 years old, and the term was common when I was in grade school and junior high....
Geez, hadn't heard that term for forever!

"rink" = stoner, slacker....you know, the kids that would walk just off campus in high school to smoke.

BTW - I'll be 43 in a couple weeks.
bironi
06-05-2006, 09:52 AM
That is the definition I was looking for. It must gone to the slang junk pile. I could not find any Google reference, or dictionary reference to this definition.

Byron
Ozz
06-05-2006, 11:03 AM
Maybe it was a NW thing?? Where did you go to high school?

(Mariner H.S. Everett, WA '81)
Russell
06-05-2006, 12:34 PM
Geez, hadn't heard that term for forever!

"rink" = stoner, slacker....you know, the kids that would walk just off campus in high school to smoke.

BTW - I'll be 43 in a couple weeks.

Damn I used to be a rink and didn't even know it. Whooaa
Lunar Probe
06-05-2006, 12:35 PM
420, Imho.
Russell
06-05-2006, 12:36 PM
Maybe it was a NW thing?? Where did you go to high school?

When my family moved to St. Louis from Wash, DC in the '69, everybody was going around saying, "Man, that is really cock!" (meaning cool) Talk about culture shock.
bironi
06-05-2006, 12:42 PM
Maybe it was a NW thing?? Where did you go to high school?
Mt Rainier High School, Des Moines, WA. You may be right about the NW thing.

Byron
William
06-05-2006, 12:47 PM
I don't know, I never heard anyone say that when we were walking off campus into the woods..... ;)

Bellevue HS, Bellevue WA.

I've heard it, though it wasn't really used much then.


William
Lunar Probe
06-05-2006, 02:32 PM
When my family moved to St. Louis from Wash, DC in the '69, everybody was going around saying, "Man, that is really cock!" (meaning cool) Talk about culture shock.


Yeah, and in '69 Gaylord was still considered an acceptable name for a male baby.
catulle
06-05-2006, 05:48 PM
Would rink be like obtuse, atmo? :no:
davids
06-05-2006, 07:10 PM
Regionalisms (http://www.popvssoda.com/)
PanTerra
06-06-2006, 12:08 PM
Geez, hadn't heard that term for forever!

"rink" = stoner, slacker....you know, the kids that would walk just off campus in high school to smoke.

BTW - I'll be 43 in a couple weeks.

Well, when I was in highschool (class of '77), we actually had a fenced-in concrete slab, about 20'x20' just for the smokers, just outside the cafeteria. They were a bunch of slackers, but I had never heard of "rink" used in that context.